
FactorVAE [1]} and \(\beta \) -TCVAE [2]} just add more weight on the TC term \(\mathbb {E}_{q(z)}[\log \frac{q(z)}{\tilde{q}(z)}]\) , which express the dependence across dimensions of variable in information theory, where \(\tilde{q}(z)=\prod _{i=1}^nq(z_i)\) .
